The novel “Dreaming in Cuban” by Christina Garcia is about a Cuban family. This novel is structured around the Cuban revolution, from politics, to family life and spirituality. All the women in the family have strained relationships. They all have very different personalities and different reactions to the revolution. Lourdes, Celia's daughter, wants nothing to do with the revolution and wants nothing to do with Cuba. She also doesn't maintain much contact with her mother. Everything she's been through explains why she is the way she is and why her daughter also has a strained relationship with her. One of the main reasons why Lourdes has problems is because Celia treated her. When Celia married Jorge, she was heartbroken because of Gustavo. He writes to Gustavo saying: “My food and milk poison me but I bloat anyway. The child lives on poison. (50) Later it is also stated that if he has a boy, if he has a girl he will go away; then it will stay. “He would not abandon a daughter to this life, but would train her to read the columns of blood and the numbers in the eyes of men, to understand the morphology of survival. His daughter also survived the intense flames. (42) Celia sort of breaks that promise when Lourdes is born when she has a nervous breakdown and Jorge sends her to a mental institution. When Lourdes is born, Celia tells Jorge that she has no shadow. Celia even held Lourdes by the leg and said she won't remember her name. She also suffers from abandonment and separation when Lourdes leaves Cuba with her daughter Pilar. This hurts Celia because she has a close bond with Pillar and hopes that one day he will return to Cuba. Their connection to each other... center of the paper... accepts Pilar as she is. It takes a while but it happens. Toward the end of the book, however, Celia realizes that her efforts toward revolution have harmed her children. To escape her suffering, Celia decides to commit suicide. “Celia reaches for her left earlobe and releases her pearl earring to the sea. He feels its absence between his thumb and forefinger. Then undo the small clasp on the right ear and give away the other pearl. Celia closes her eyes and imagines him drifting like a firefly across the darkened seas, imagines him slowly dying out. (244)Even at first Lourdes seems a little crazy and is very unpleasant. Only when you read more do you realize that he's been through a lot and that he's actually a nice character. He has a lot to offer and you start to understand why he acts the way he does.